If you need a giggle, please laugh at my expense (mostly NRR)

To say I've been stressed out would be an understatement I think. There are a ton of things going on in my life, a lot of bad timing that it all happened right at once, some of it completely my choice, but it has been pretty crazy. Probably really affecting my running too but that's a whole bloop in itself (which I am planning on writing if I ever get a minute.)

The important part of this is that the more stressed I am the more scatterbrained I become (which really interferes with getting things done and doesn't help the stress level. Not sure what my body is going for with that response but anyways....) And it has been pretty bad lately. I have more of a brain fog than I can remember ever having before.

The best story out of all of this was yesterday. Sitting on the bus, riding towards campus, minding my own business, a thought pops into my head, really screeches in my head, as if it is attached to a siren and blinking lights spelling out the words: YOU DIDN'T PUT ON DEODORANT TODAY.

Well, bleep.

I text DBF telling him this (true test of a relationship when you aren't embarrassed about much of anything, yes?), to which he questions how that even happens. Basically, I don't have a routine yet in the new house (DBF sleeps in until I'm out of the shower, I go into the bedroom (in a towel, mind you) and wake him up to put on clothes but don't want to put on deodorant before and get it all over my shirt! Yesterday, I left out the step where I go back in the bathroom and put the deodorant on.)

I am glad it was a rest day since I feel like I sweat more after running.

But of course it was a warmer day, more typical of summer instead of the random fall temps we had in August for a bit. Oh yeah, and it happens to be the day I am meeting with my new advisor. I spend the rest of the day during class trying to be conscious to keep my arms at my sides. I had a odd occurrence of really bad BO for a few days a couple weeks ago and was imagining that coming back. Checking myself a few times in the bathroom throughout the day and so far, no BO.

Take a longer walk out in the hot day during lunch (in my long pants and tennis shoes I have wear for lab) because I had to go to an office which closes at 3:45 (dumb if you ask me). Then it turns out to be the only day we got held over in class. So I had less than ten minutes to get to the other building for my meeting. I speed-walked part way across campus as fast as my calves would allow, got there in time and my advisor wasn't even there yet.

I still couldn't smell myself, so I was hoping no one else could!

Leave school, and have a few errands to run. Go to Kroger and as I am checking out, the cashier tells me I smell nice.

In my mind I wanted to tell her "ARE YOU SERIOUS BECAUSE I NEVER EVEN PUT ON DEODORANT TODAY?!?" But instead I said "thank you" and made other small talk. Don't need everyone to know.

I've forgotten before - I actually have to sticks of deoderant one in my bedroom and one in the bathroom. At least you usually wear it. My boss (and several other coworkers) don't. I guess they think they don't smell - but they do! I always cringe a little internally when my boss comes over to tell me something especially in the summer.

I've forgotten before - I actually have to sticks of deoderant one in my bedroom and one in the bathroom. At least you usually wear it. My boss (and several other coworkers) don't. I guess they think they don't smell - but they do! I always cringe a little internally when my boss comes over to tell me something especially in the summer.

Oh man, I don't think that is optional for most people!

I also know the first thing I'm going to stash in my desk at school next week!

I'm sure you smelled sweet. If you makes you feel better, I discovered I was out of deodorant after my run at work yesterday. Still had half a day to go after having sweat pouring from you.... Hope the stress eases soon!

I've lived in Spain for a year and a half, and the men there aren't too keen on deodorant. On the off chance that I forgot one morning, I just stuck around one of them so that everyone would assume it was them being stinky. Still the worst feeling in the world realizing it though!

Thanks for the giggle! My husband will never let me forget the time we were hiking in the woods and one of us smelled really bad. For the longest time we both silently thought it was him till I had that same revelation you had in the red font!

Where I lived last year they didn't even have deodorant. The stuff I'd packed when I flew in ran out over the winter and I went without for the next 4-5 months after that. Apparently our bodies start to smell less if we stop wearing deodorant for an extended period (because we sweat more in adaptation to wearing it?). Either that or I just got used to the smell and stopped noticing.

Edson's comment above just cracks me up! You can tell he lives in Europe where body hair shaving is totally optional for women! hahahahaha!!!

I keep deodorant in the bathroom and on my dresser and in my glove box in the car....just for those moments when my routine gets thrown off.

I worked for a manager once with the medical problem of really bad body odor - you've never smelled bad b.o. till you've smelled someone with that problem. It made the secretary in that office gag regularly it was so bad.

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